As part of Brain Tumour Awareness month Brainwaves NI supporters are holding a series of ‘Hats on for March’ events at local businesses, primary schools, clubs and other community groups.
As part of Brain Tumour Awareness month Brainwaves NI supporters are holding a series of ‘Hats on for March' events at local businesses, primary schools, clubs and other community groups. Brainwaves NI is joining forces with fellow brain tumour charities throughout the country to run this campaign.
Local organisers are being encouraged to pick a date in March and hold a ‘Wear a Hat' day for brain tumours and donate a pound (or more if they so wish) to go towards brain tumour support and research.
Local Wear a Hat day organiser, Maggi Whyte, chairperson of Brainwaves NI says: ‘Every year 16,000 people across Northern Ireland and the UK are diagnosed with a brain tumour. More children and people under the age of 40 die of a brain tumour than leukaemia or any other cancer and five year survival is still only 14 per cent.
‘Put another way only 14 per cent of people diagnosed with brain cancer survive beyond five years compared to 50 per cent for all other cancers - and sadly brain tumour research is woefully under funded.
‘Brain tumours are indiscriminate in the people they affect: young or old, male or female, with no regard to race - we don't fully understand the behaviour let alone the cause.
‘By holding a ‘Wear a Hat' day in March we hope both to raise awareness of this disease and to encourage people to donate towards helping us to raise the funds to find a cure'.
For further Information or to arrange an interview please contact:
Siobhán McKenna, Voluntary Publicity Officer
07775517230,
fawn_ie@hotmail.com
Website: www.brainwaves-ni.org
All monies raised should be sent to:
Wear A Hat Day Campaign
Brainwaves NI
44a Granagh Road
Cullybackey
County Antrim
BT42 1EQ
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